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    Takashi Murakami: in the court of the king of cute
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    This autumn Murakami will occupy an entire room in the Tate Modern show Pop Life. "There will be a collaboration with Kanye West [the American rapper], a cabinet piece and a new video work with Kirsten Dunst in a collaboration with McG who made Charlie’s Angels" he says. The exhibition explores how artists since Warhol have used business and glamour to create a public image. Full Article at Times Online
    There will be a collaboration with Kanye West [the American rapper], a cabinet piece and a new video work with Kirsten Dunst in a collaboration with McG who made Charlie’s Angels
    SOURCE: Times Online 2 months ago
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Takashi Murakami: in the court of the king of cute
  1. After the war Japan became supported by the US. As a country it was not complete ... You could say our culture is dark.
    SOURCE: Times Online 2 months ago
  2. Important artists such as Van Gogh and Warhol all left self-portraits that later appeared in their retrospectives. I realised I had not done enough [to provide for exhibitions after my death] so I decided to make some
    SOURCE: Times Online 2 months ago
  3. My audience is very varied and includes specialist [collectors] and non-specialists, as well as children and students. I want to make things that can be easily understood by young people ... My work looks very simple, but honestly underneath it is complex.
    SOURCE: Times Online 2 months ago
  4. It was terrible. I remember it so well, although my mother says she doesn’t remember. It’s my trauma ... My father drove a taxi at night, and in the daytime he used to watch TV documentaries on the Vietnam War and describe aspects of the war to me in huge detail. It was a kind of complex of his, and it ...
    SOURCE: Times Online 2 months ago
  5. Actually I don’t take drugs. It’s really my weak point. I have no experience of them. I once tried some kind of ganja in Nepal, and I was very ill. I used to drink a lot but then I got gout so I’ve stopped that. I’ve become oddly pure
    SOURCE: Times Online 2 months ago

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